Connecting Rod Life

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  • CHUMBA
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2007
    • 133

    #1

    Connecting Rod Life

    If you have good rods ( oliver, dyers, ect. ) how many laps can you run them? Can they be rebuilt? Or do you just replace after a certain number of laps?
    Thanks Chumba.
  • MasterSbilt_Racer
    Senior Member
    • May 2007
    • 14324

    #2
    They can be rebuilt to an extent, but eventually the material has too many fatigue cycles. I don't know what that number is, however.
    Modern Day Spec Wedge Racing

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    • dynoman14
      Senior Member
      • Apr 2008
      • 1336

      #3
      Some Cup teams use 1million cycles some more some less.
      Calculation is an approximation of total rpms. 8500rpms X 1 hr = 510Kcycles so a 4hr race is a couple million cycles. That is why rods are cycled out every race. Busch rods have less cycle time and less power so they are preferred. I like spin-tron rods as they don't see combustion pressures.

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